UPDATED - Trump calls out McCain for ObamaCare vote

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY PETER SULLIVAN - 02/23/18 11:13 AM EST

President Trump on Friday called out Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), though not by name, for his vote against ObamaCare repeal.

Link to tweet

McCain's vote in July was one of three key votes against the slimmed-down "skinny repeal" bill that helped doom the repeal effort.

Trump on Friday argued that despite McCain's vote, "we may be better off the way we’re doing it," going after ObamaCare in a piece-by-piece way.

Trump has attacked McCain before, most prominently in 2015 going after his service in Vietnam, where McCain was held as a prisoner of war, by saying, "I like people that weren't captured."

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Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/375270-trump-calls-out-mccain-for-obamacare-vote

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UPDATE:

Trump: ObamaCare being wiped out 'piece by piece'

BY PETER SULLIVAN - 02/23/18 10:48 AM EST

President Trump argued Friday that ObamaCare is being “wiped out” in a “piece-by-piece” way despite the failure of the GOP Congress to repeal the law.

Trump, speaking to the Conservative Political Action Conference Friday, pointed to a number of actions that Republicans have taken against the law, including repealing the individual mandate to buy health insurance as part of the tax-cut bill.

He also appeared to reference a rule his administration put out this week allowing for new “short-term plans” that are cheaper and skimpier than ObamaCare insurance plans.

Trump lamented that legislation to entirely repeal the law failed by one vote in the Senate, but added, “I think we may be better off the way we’re doing it, piece by piece, ObamaCare is just being wiped out.”

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http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/375265-trump-obamacare-being-wiped-out-piece-by-piece

[bluestarone]

1. Yea and McCains daughter said tRUMPY won't say anything bad about her father. YEA RIGHT!!

[Siwsan]

11. She and her Mom are going to respond to this on 'The View', on Wednesday

Meghan has been uncharacteristically calm and moderate on today's show.

[olegramps]

12. She is a brainless twit. Just another Repukian piece of trash. Fascist bitch.

[TranssexualKaren]

2. McCain may have saved the Republican Party!!!

[Botany]

3. Trump is trying to change the subject from Gates who is going to plead guilty and flip

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141995911

In his reptile brain he and or his team is thinking what could I/we do
to change the news cycle? How about attacking a dying man?

[BumRushDaShow]

5. EXACTLY THIS

There is major movement by Mueller the past couple days and they know the feeding-frenzy media will love covering his inane tweets.

[iluvtennis]

7. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Agree

[dalton99a]

9. Yep. Same old shtick.

[Honeycombe8]

16. Yep. "Look at the shiny object...don't look over here." nt

[gopiscrap]

4. what an asshole

[underpants]

6. "I don't want to be controversial..."

[dalton99a]

10. Apophasis. Same old trick

“I was going to say ‘dummy’ Bush; I won’t say it. I won’t say it,”

“I refuse to call Megyn Kelly a bimbo, because that would not be politically correct,”

“Unlike others, I never attacked dopey Jon Stewart for his phony last name. Would never do that!”

“I promised I would not say that she [Carly Fiornia] ran Hewlett-Packard into the ground, that she laid off tens of thousands of people and she got viciously fired. I said I will not say it, so I will not say it.”

[forgotmylogin]

14. Another: "I don't mean to offend, but..." (n/t)

[dalton99a]

15. Yep.

[Honeycombe8]

17. Passive-aggressive. nt

[iluvtennis]

8. Same shit, different day. This attack, attack, attack, and not talk about policies has been

his MO since the primaries (Little Marco, Low Energy Jeb, etc, etc) and he continues. We DU'ers are woke, but many other need to wake up and see this shithole for what he is....nothing but empty propaganda.

[LakeArenal]

13. I'm not going to be all "oh poor McCain".....

He's done plenty to keep him lumped into the GOP.

As a matter of fact, I am okay with the Repukes eating themselves. They had to start eventually...

[keithbvadu2]

18. GOP voted to repeal O'care dozens of times when they knew that Obama would safely veto it.

GOP voted to repeal O'care dozens of times when they knew that Obama would safely veto it.

Now that they have Trump to sign it, they show their incompetence to govern.